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6-7 millimeters ey rather remotely toothed, the teeth softly 
ary and Ss. 
spine-tipped: yle k-shaped, the ovary 2-celled, 
the style as eae. as the ovary or sl 'y longer; stigmas sharply 
differentiated from the style, stout-subulate, hick edges 
htly lat here are vules i ary-cavity, 
suspel hemispheric placenta borne in the top of the 
ovary-cavity. The fruits are nearly globose, usually fully 2.5 
centimeters long when ripe, orange, the epicarp rather thin, 
the endocarp often slightly elongate, obscurely 4-angled, 
1.5-2 ae thic 
The seed is en. by the abortion of one of the ovules in 
one cavity an ovules in the other and by the partial 
suppression of one of th: ry-cavities it occupies most of 
fruit-cavity. The partition is pushed ove y o i 
one side of the endocarp. is globular, the cotyledons are 
turned back on the slender funicle, much corrugated, so: a 
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hemispheric, but Sa aney, from the pressure of the large 
is not properly included in any o the one - which it has 
i err 
e seed, n n te) 
the families of the cae shrubs and trees have the 
m: e 
walnuts and the oaks. It should, therefore, be considered as 
aad a distinct and natural plant family, to be known 
s PICRODENDRACEAE 
A second species oe Picrodendron grows at low elevations near 
